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zebra2 · 4423 days ago · link · · parent · post: Are the terms "theory" and "hypothesis" dead? What about "Scientific Law"?
I think it's pretty ridiculous to say that the terms are bad because some people don't understand them. I don't see how replacing them with the term "model" is going to avoid that problem in the future; I could already imagine someone dismissing an idea based on the term "model" because models are what kids make in school, right? Or perhaps people will talk about how evolution was a theory and got downgraded to a model. Point is: you don't cure stupidity by pandering to it.